To the Heavens Above and the Yellow Springs Below

Xi Shu, the pride of the Guxiao Sect, dies in battle while saving the woman he loves.

Three thousand years later...

One man, one sword, one dynasty, one battlefield, one handful of yellow earth.

Witness how Gu Fengyue, the eldest legitimate son of the great general known as the Prince of the Frontier, who "keeps watch alone beneath the bright moon on the border, while the crows dare not cry out," turns the tide amid the rise and fall of dynasties after his entire family is slaughtered.

Witness how Gu Fengyue, the capital's most notorious wastrel, who took in a courtesan from the finest brothel in the land at just thirteen, fights on the battlefield and plots with strategic brilliance.

Witness how the libertine Gu Fengyue, who once laughed that "the sick men of the northern frontier are all beneath notice," roams the martial world and sings his way into legend.

Witness that one man as he writes of love and longing.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.